Afshin Jaberi is multilingual, speaking Persian, Arabic, English, Hungarian, and Russian.
Jaberi's compositions often combine a Western Romantic approach to harmony and form with Eastern melodic influences.
Afshin Jaberi, born in 1973 to an Iranian family in Qatar, began his formal musical training in 1991 at the Franz Liszt Academy in Hungary.
The First Ballade, written when Afshin Jaberi was eighteen, was among his compositions that attracted attention during his studies.
Afshin Jaberi's compositions are deeply influenced by the Bahá'í faith, reflecting its tenets of unity and the equal validity of all world religions.
This album features world première recordings of Afshin Jaberi performing his own compositions for piano.
